Scacht Konrad

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The pit Konrad or Schacht Konrad is a former iron ore mine proposed as a deep geological repository for medium- and low level radioactive waste.

Location: it is located in the city Salzgitter in the Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig. It has two shafts: Konrad I and Konrad II.

Human conditions: With regard to safety issues: in 1987, three different expert opinions were given which argued that Schacht Konrad is not at all appropriate as a final repository.

Workers will be exposed to radiation much more than the normal population, meaning that a railroad worker will be allowed to receive the same amount of radiation every nine minutes which other people are allowed within a year.

History: The first activities on this place began in 1867. The shaft Konrad is the youngest of the former iron ore mines in this region.The mining operation on Konrad lasted from 1961 to 1976. During this period, a total of 6.7 million tonnes of iron ore were retrieved.

The shaft Konrad is an unusually dry iron ore mine. This is one of the criteria for a deep final repository for radioactive waste, the studies on the possibility of a disposal site were started in 1975.